[Legend Android Development] mikereidis:
Re: rant, don't want to come off as complaining, I KNOW documenting semi-foolproof procedures is tons of work, to do properly. I understand a big problem is consideration of the large set of combinations of ROMs, recoveries, apps, S-On/S-Off states, Radios, etc.

OK, cool, I want "realflash" type recovery then. I guess that's one reason to have S-Off ?

I had to slightly alter your first command by appending a '/'.

EDIT: WOOHOO ! Success I think ! :) Feel free to skip the rest of this post unless you want to hear the details of my adventure...

Thank you ! Editing this post the last hour I wrote "Success ! :)" here anticipating such, but alas, I have some issue.

I don't know if I have to be extra patient as deodexing happens, Or if I'm stuck in some boot loop... I see "HTC quietly brilliant" and screen flashing on and off and re-writing the HTC spam.

Re: HTC FM app. OK, cool, I see :

ls -l /system/app/HtcFMRadio.apk

-rw-r--r-- root root 826176 2008-08-01 07:00 HtcFMRadio.apk

And bluetooth. Is there any way to switch normal media output, like from TuneIn radio etc, to my cheap new bluetooth headset ? I pushed the button in CM7 and I see I could start a voice dial, but I figured BT would take over all audio I desired routed through it.

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I did:

adb push recovery.img /sdcard/

adb shell flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img

adb reboot recovery

In the CWM menu I had to select "Nandroid", and then "Backup".

That completed.

I didn't want to bother rebooting, so manually grabbed the backup files:

adb shell ls -l /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/

adb shell ls -l /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2011-02-27.03.19.57/

mkdir cm7backup-2011-02-27.03.19.57

cd cm7backup-2011-02-27.03.19.57

adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2011-02-27.03.19.57/boot.img

adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2011-02-27.03.19.57/cache.img

adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2011-02-27.03.19.57/data.img

adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2011-02-27.03.19.57/nandroid.md5

adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2011-02-27.03.19.57/recovery.img

adb pull /sdcard/clockworkmod/backup/2011-02-27.03.19.57/system.img

Then to be sure:

cat nandroid.md5

md5sum *.img

Yes, looks good ! :) Now for Blayo:

cd ..

adb push b-0.7.zip /sdcard/

Goto CWM. Version 2.5.0.1, I had a 7 at the end before. Fine I'm sure.

Use volume up/down to select install from a ZIP. Press power to select. Oh, oh, shoulda used the trackball switch as it powered off. :(

Whoops, press power again and screen comes back, LOL. Choose zip from sdcard and use trackball switch this time. Move and select Blayo b-0.7.zip

Wonderfully wacky confirmation. Error message saying it can't find the zip file. Hmmm....

Reboot a few times and finally do "adb reboot recovery" and retry install from ZIP.

No go, get:

-- Installing: SDCARD:b-0.7.zip

Finding update package...

Opening update package...

E:Can't open sdcard/b-0.7.zip

(bad)

Installation aborted.

Try to open 98 MB zip file. No go. AHA ! corrupted file.

Try download from mirror 2: http://www.dkmdesign.dk/custom_roms/blay0/b-0.7.zip File is supposed to be 126 MB.

Gee I'm glad there's an unzip process that checks the integrity of ROM flashes.

So again:

adb push b-0.7.zip /sdcard/

And install, running..... Done !

Try to use power button to reboot. Use back key and "reboot system now". Cross fingers and offer the gods sacrifices...

See androids on skateboards again. Recall I may have to be patient as deodexing happens... See "HTC quietly brilliant" spam,,, in this context,good. :) Waiting....

Waiting.... screen flashing on and off and writing the HTC mind control spam.

Try reboot when tired of waiting and same thing. AFAICT, from "adb shell ls * etc" on the filesystem, Blayo ROM is installed but just won't stop flashing the HTC logo.